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Brockopp, Jonathan E. - Eich, Thomas (eds.), Muslim Medical Ethics: From Theory to Practice, Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 2008, x + 298 pp.
- Resum
- Muslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies. Edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp and Thomas Eich, the volume challenges traditional presumptions of theory and practice to demonstrate the ways in which Muslims balance respect for their heritage with the health issues of a modern world. Like members of many other faiths, Muslims are deeply engaged by the technological challenges posed by modern biomedicine, and they respond to those challenges with enormous creativity—whether as patients, doctors, or religious scholars. Muslim Medical Ethics demonstrates that religiously based cultural norms often inform medical practice, and vice versa, in an ongoing discourse. The contributors map the breadth and boundaries of this discourse through discussions of contested issues on the cutting edge of ethical debates, from fertilized embryos in Saudi Arabia to patient autonomy in Toronto, from organ trafficking in Egypt to sterilization in Tanzania. As the authors illustrate, the effects of Muslim medical ethics have ramifications beyond the Muslim world. With growing populations of Muslims in North America and Europe, Western physicians and health-care workers should be educated on the special needs of this category of patients. In every essay the richness of the Islamic tradition is visible. In the premodern period Muslim physicians were considered among the best in the world, building and improving on Greek and Indian traditions. Muslim physicians today continue that tradition while incorporating scientific advances. Scholars of Islamic law work closely with physicians to develop ethical guidelines for national and international bodies, and individual Muslims take full advantage of advances in medicine and religious law, combining them with the wisdom of Sufism and traditions of family and community. This exploration of Muslim medical ethics is therefore a foray into the richness and sophistication of the Islamic tradition itself.
Contents:
- The ethics of the physician in the Galeno-Islamic tradition / Samar Farage
- Stearns (2008), "Enduring the Plague: Ethical ..."
- Decision-making processes among contemporary ʿulamā: Islamic embryology and the discussion of frozen embryos / Thomas Eich
- Rethinking Islamic legal ethics in Egypt's organ transplant debate / Sherine Hamdy
- Competing needs and pragmatic decision-making: Islam and permanent contraception in northern Tanzania / Susi Krehbiel Keefe
- Male infertility in Mali: kinship and impacts on biomedical practice in Bamako / Viola Herbst
- Islam, organ transplants, and organ trafficking in the Muslim world: paving a path for solutions / Debra Budiani and Othman Shibly
- Ethical and legal implications in assisted reproductive technology: perspective analysis of the Gulf Cooperative Council states / Hamza Eskandarani
- The permissibility of organ donation, end-of-life care, and autopsy in Shiite Islam: a case study / Iqbal H. Jaffer and Shabbir M. H. Alibhai
- A comparative analysis of Islamic and Jewish end-of-life ethics: a case-based approach / Shabbir M.H. Alibhai and Michael Gordon
- Medication and God at interplay: end-of-life decision-making in practicing male Moroccan migrants living in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium / Stef Van den Branden and Bert Broeckaert
- Reporting on "Islamic bioethics" in the medical literature: where are the experts? / Hasan Shanawani and Mohammad Hassan Khalil
- Islamic medical ethics: what and how to teach / Hassan Bella
- Defining the pedagogical parameters of Islamic bioethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina
- Matèries
- Medicina - Ètica i etiqueta mèdiques
Arabisme
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor a http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2009/3753.html
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